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A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.
“I wasn’t the fastest guy in the world. I wouldn’t have done well in an Olympiad or a math contest. But I like to ponder. And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach.’
– Jim Simons
“Go do something great and your network will instantly emerge.” - @naval
And as Carl Jung said, no matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.
There is a toxic type of person to avoid— the kind obsessed with hierarchy, constantly ranking everyone: net worth, IQ, number of publications,academic titles & citations, cycling FTP, 5K running speed, education, etc.
They are miserable & want you to be miserable too.
Bro scientist: "I recommend eating protein after lifting BECAUSE muscles are made of protein".
Questioner: What is your source of protein?
Bro scientist: Cow meat.
Questioner: Do cows eat meat?
"AI makes reading irrelevant"
No.
You just don't understand the purpose of reading.
When done correctly, reading is the one thing that WILL set you apart in the age of AI:
https://t.co/vaWVosFdHN
Most philosophers got problem-solving better than modern design thinking.
This missing piece changes everything about tackling complex challenges:
Most people think philosophy is useless in business and politics.
They're missing the most powerful operating system for decision-making.
You know how we replaced a lot of physical labour with machinery so we invented "exercise"?
We're about to replace mental labour with AI, what forms of "mental exercise" do you think we're all going to take up?
supervision, the open-source library I created a year ago, has crossed 20,000 stars on GitHub this weekend!
thank you to everyone who helped me build this project!
it took us 3,500+ commits, 850+ PRs and 80+ contributors to do it.
repository: https://t.co/xXMRaS3Guk
Great to see the engagement from this post. We have more tips and reflections about HCI research and scientific communication in our Makeability Lab handbook: https://t.co/ULJzuJMDxZ